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...Seinfeld, who has an older sister, Carolyn Liebling, describes his parents, Kal and Betty Seinfeld, as loving "but not interested in a good way." Seinfeld's mother had grown up in orphanages and foster care. His father, who owned a sign-making business, came from a broken home. "They were loners," says Seinfeld. "They kind of raised us in a very hands-off way. I said, 'I want to be a comedian.' They said, 'Oh, well, we look forward to hearing about it.'" When his father died in 1985, Seinfeld was already a successful comedian who had appeared...
...Seinfeld spends a lot of time figuring out ways to make his own kids laugh. Not surprisingly, he usually succeeds. "He makes these children laugh so hard, I have to watch them to make sure they're not choking," says Jessica, who founded Baby Buggy, a children's charity, in 2001. She has also written a cookbook, Deceptively Delicious, about making healthy food for kids-which is coming out in October...
...While Seinfeld was busy starting a family in New York City, Hollywood kept calling. He was never tempted to return to sitcoms. "When I was done, it was like, I can't touch that again," he says. "Who wants second best?" Plus, he says, "television is for young people who want to put their whole life into something. I'm way past that point." He admits he occasionally stops on Seinfeld while flipping through the channels ("I watch it now, and I go, 'Oh, now I see why they liked the show'"). No, he says, dollar signs do not flash...
...Until Bee Movie, he had never seriously considered making a big commercial feature film. "They're too long," he says. "Comedy should be short. I don't even think they should make movie comedies. The last third is almost always torture. There's no energy left." And Seinfeld never harbored dreams of being a movie star. "If you read something somebody else wrote, no matter how well you read it, you didn't think of that," says Seinfeld. "I once had a bit I was going to try and do. I love when people talk about movies, they...
...When he mentioned the idea for Bee Movie to Spielberg in 2003, "I was just trying to make witty conversation," says Seinfeld. "It was never my intention to make the movie." He said yes, however, when DreamWorks Animation offered him complete control, and he thought it sounded fun to get together some former Seinfeld writers to work with him on the script. "We had a blast," he says. Plus, computer animation "just felt so different. What if I can be funny this way? I just kind of got sucked...